New! : Version 2.0 available for FREE NOW (download...), with a completely new 300 pp documentation (download...)

Welcome to IC-EMC homepage

The IC-EMC software is the non-commercial tool to illustrate the electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) of integrated circuits (IC). The tool has been developped within the frame of the European projects MEDEA+ Parachute, PIDEA+ "EmcPack" and Aerospace-Valley project "EPEA".

The software has been developped by Etienne SICARD and Alexandre BOYER, INSA-Toulouse, France, as part of their research on EMC of ICs at LATTIS labs.

New! : Two days tutorial on EMC of ICs in Toulouse, France, Sept 2010, in cooperation with NEXIO

New! : Presentation of IC-EMC at EWME 2010 in Darmstadt, Germany, May 2010, focused on the pedagogical interest of the software for EMC of ICs (download...)

New! Version 2.0 user's manual version now available for download!

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Also for download

• Download the presentation "AN EDUCATIONNAL APPROACH TO ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS" made at EWME2010, May 10-12, 2010, Darmstadt, Germany
• Training about EMC of ICs proposed at AP-EMC 2010 Beijing, April 12th, 2010
• Some basic exercises about EMC of ICs for beginners
• PPT presentation supporting a demo of IC-EMC at IEEE EMC Austin, 2009
• PPT presentation about BGA64 modelling at EMC Europe 2008, Sept 2008
• PPT presentation about IC-EMC at AP-EMC 08, May 2008
• Download PPT slides about Immunity Simulation with IC-EMC, Sept 2007
• Download the paper published at EMC Compo 05 in Munich, Nov 2005
• Download the presentation made at the IBIS summit in March 2005
• The analog simulation tool WinSPICE may be downloaded at www.winspice.com

Application Notes

• A short note on XML near-field scan implementation, Feb. 2008
• An application note about TQFP package modelling with Advanced Package Model tool, September 2009
• An application note about BCI clamp modelling, May 2010

Main window

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The main screen of the schematic editor is shown above. The editor contains a palette of symbols (Window "Symbol Library" situated on the right of the screen) as well as some basic editing icons to build the schematic diagram of the circuit. The R,L,C components may be found in the "Advanced" index of the symbol library.

Main controls

The main commands of the tool are, from left to right: the Spice simulation icon translates the schematic diagram into a SPICE-compatible text file, the other icons give access to the emission spectrum window, the impedance vs. frequency, the immunity simulation screen, the near-field simulation screen, the S parameter screen, the parametric analysis and the IBIS file viewer.

New features in version 2.0

• N port
• Automatic susceptibility extraction
• XML near field scan support
• Automatic TLine generation
• 3D reconstruction from IBIS
• 3D package model using PEEC
• Time-Domain-Reflectometry
• S-Parameter de-embedding
• Exercises

3D package viewer

A 3D-package viewer uses IBIS information in combination with a list of hidden keywords to generate a realistic view of the package (BGA, QFP..). From this view, an accurate model of the package may be generated in IBIS version 4.2 and SPICE formats.

Other features

In IC-EMC, specific tools are also provided for various aspects of integrated circuit characterization, as well as simple screens to ease data conversion and resonant frequency evaluation. The EMC menu is detailed below.

New features

Features under development